Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it prepares for launch this summer. The name is a result of a nationwide contest, which accepted more than 28,000 essays from K-12 ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Ingenuity's second aerial photo of the Martian surface The photos clearly show the tracks of the six-wheel Perseverance Mars rover. Perseverance carried Ingenuity nearly 300 million miles to Mars ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has closely studied the rock formation known as Serpentine Lake on Mars, which reveals serpentine minerals that typically form in water-rich environments. The analysis ...

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the ...

The Red Planet once had "habitable environments, capable of harboring conditions friendly" toward life, researchers believe.

Perseverance, the Mars rover, plays a fundamental role in research on the Red Planet, with the primary goal of studying the planet’s geological past and paving the way for future manned missions.